I wonder how many have pondered pon this before? How many have finally crystalised their dreams for a place of the their own and then begun the quest to find it? And how many fail...
And so here we are, on the first night of our first real journey in the quest for finding the land of our dreams.
Our initial foray planned we had planned to happen earlier in the year but it had to be abandoned when the rain kept us at bay. Heavy flooding in the area meant several of the properties we had on our initial list were either unreachable or flooded out themselves. That helped us strike one or two off the list...
So we rescheduled and had been planning for this trip for a number of weeks. And then decided that an impromptu trip last weekend was needed. A 36 hour trip driving from Canberra to Kempsey and return to see what was our forerunner property before it got snapped up.
However, it turned out that despite its abundant and very lovely waterway and its quaint and quirky houses that were right up our alley, it was not the place for us. Too far, too steep, to damp and too sad really...a shadowy place filled with shadows of what once was.
But it did get us all talking a little more about what we were looking for as well as reassess what we could realistically manage.
And so this weekend we are focussing on seeking poperties with very little if any improvements. Land that we can mold and work with to make our own, without inheriting someone else's broken dreams.
A scary prospect indeed but also a very exciting one!
Time for an update
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